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Man And Wife

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Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Matthew 19:6

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

1 Peter 3:7

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

1 Corinthians 7:10–11

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

Galatians 3:28

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:1–33

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:4–6

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:1–7

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:32

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:9–10

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Mark 10:12

and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry another, she committeth adultery.

Ephesians 5:23

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Ephesians 5:31

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:28

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

1 Peter 3:1

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

Colossians 3:18–19

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 4:8

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:10

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Mark 10:9

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

James 5:16

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

Ephesians 5:23–33

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. — read the full passage →

Romans 1:21–28

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:1–30

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Timothy 5:8

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 5:22–24

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 14:1

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Mark 10:6–9

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:28

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:1–34

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

James 2:10

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

Colossians 3:14

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Ephesians 5:21–33

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

1 Corinthians 7:11

(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

1 Peter 3:6

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

1 Peter 3:1–2

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Titus 2:5

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Ephesians 4:32

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 6:1–20

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Mark 10:8

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

Matthew 19:5

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

Matthew 5:27–28

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

1 John 3:4

Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Matthew 5:1–48

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Romans 7:2

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

2 Corinthians 10:4–5

(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds); — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:11

Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

John 1:1–51

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

James 1:14–15

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

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